Why the Soviet Revisionist Leadership Insists on the International Meeting

After the communique on the convocation of the «consultative
get-together» of the revisionists in Budapest, the Soviet leadership is
making a great propaganda fuss about the alleged «international meeting
of the communist and workers’ parties».

It is understandable that the Soviet leadership continues to insist on
the convocation of the meeting because it can’t do otherwise. Through
such a meeting, it hopes to extricate itself from or, at least,
mitigate the great internal and external difficulties it is meeting
with and attain some of its counter-revolutionary aims in the world
communist movement.

The main and most grave difficulty for the present-day Soviet
leadership lies in the fact that, as a result of the principled, open
and ruthless fight waged by the Marxist-Leninist parties, the
anti-Marxist, anti-socialist, counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist
line, which it has pursued and is pursuing in all the fields, has been
exposed before the eyes of the Soviet and other peoples.

The demagogical slogans of the «construction of communism»
in the Soviet Union or of the «construction of socialism» in the other
revisionist countries are no longer holding water. The Soviet people
and the other peoples are seeing that the place of communism and
socialism in their countries has now been taken by the processes of
capitalist restoration in economy and bourgeois degeneration in the
whole social life. Capitalist profit has become the main pivot of their
whole life poisoning the minds of the people with bourgeois selfishness
and individualism, inciting them to run after enrichment by all means
and methods. Revisionist decentralization of the management of economy,
extension of individual plots to the detriment of collective economy in
agriculture and other «reforms» of this kind have led and are leading
to the undermining of socialist ownership and to the revival and
flourishing of private capitalist ownership. The revisionists are going
ever further on the road of leading the economy of their countries into
the gears of the world capitalist economy, on the road of integration
of socialism into capitalism, preached by renegade Tito, French,
Italian, West German, Japanese and other capitals are ever more easily
penetrating into the economy of the revisionist countries.

The
bourgeois degeneration is sweeping over the whole cultural life, is
spreading like a plague in the Soviet Union and in other revisionist
countries. «Wes tern way of life», western fashions, bourgeois dances'
and music, decadent western art are taking root by all the means and
ways and are being spread by the revisionist clique especially among
the younger generation with a view to corrupting them. They are ever
more openly renouncing the glorious revolutionary traditions and ideals
of the October Revolution that used to inspire the people in the period
of Lenin and Stalin for selfless struggle and work to the service of
the cause of revolution and socialism. In their stead, the revisionist
cliques preach other,' «more practical and realistic» ideals —
apoliticism, running after personal Interest, comfort and ease,
privileges and amusements, pacifism, bourgeois humanism and Christian
fraternity. The gap between the new Soviet bourgeois aristocracy and
the broad popular masses is growing wider and wider from day to day. It
is now expressed not only in ruthless enrichment, but also in economic
oppression and political repression which it is resorting to in order
to preserve its privileges. It is understood that where oppression and
persecution exist there will be also resistance and struggle.

Despite the severe censure that muffles up the revisionist and the
western press, reports have leaked out of late about political
demonstrations of students who are opposed to the repressive policy of
the revisionist governments, about strikes of workers demanding the
respect of their rights and, finally, about some close-door trials that
have taken place in the Soviet Union against some armed groups
striving, allegedly, «to overthrow the regimes in power there.

Irrespective of their degree of organization, consciousness and
importance, these efforts show that the bankrupt internal policy of the
Soviet revisionists and of their followers is rapidly leading towards
inevitable clashes between the popular masses and the revisionist
ruling cliques.

Not less difficult and helpless appears the situation of the Soviet
revisionist leadership with regard to the implementation of its
traitorous foreign policy. Now, its «anti-imperialist» demagogy has
become hackneyed. Its ever closer criminal collusion with the most
rabid enemy of the people — U.S. imperialism and other imperialists and
reactionaries, its out-and-out treachery to the freedom-loving peoples
and socialist countries can no more be camouflaged with some
thread-bare slogans. The peoples have learned and are learning better
and better how to judge the revisionists not by their words but by
their deeds. And at every moment of crisis the Soviet leadership has
always taken the side of imperialism, by its capitulating and
traitorous attitudes and actions. The expenses of this treachery have
been paid by the peoples of the Congo, of Vietnam and of Arab
countries, of Cuba and of the German Democratic Republic as well as by
many other peoples and countries without counting here the joint plots
hatched by the Khrushchevite revisionists with the imperialists and
most rabid reactionary forces against China and Albania.

This traitorous line of the Soviet revisionist leadership and its
supporters could not help leading to the emergence and constant
sharpening of the contradictions of the revisionist cliques, not only
with the Marxist-Leninist parties, but also with the Soviet and other
peoples. Doubts, dissatisfaction and the resistance of genuine
revolutionaries, of the working people in the revisionist countries and
all the peoples the world over are growing with every passing day; they
are fighting against the anti-Marxist and anti-revolutionary activity
of the Soviet revisionist clique and its accomplices in the
international arena. The Soviet-U.S. alliance for the division of the
world into zones of influence and its domination by the two superpowers
is now a fact. But all the peoples of the world, all those struggling
for the freedom and independence of the peoples, all those hating
imperialism and /slavery, realizing these expansionist and enslaving
designs cannot fail to rise against them. And the former are not few in
numbers. They are counted by hundreds and hundreds of millions on all
the continents, they are all the people who resolutely reject the dirty
imperialist-revisionist bargains at their expense.

In all the countries where the revisionist leaderships have led the
proletarian parties to degeneration and liquidated them including also
the countries ruled by the revisionists, there have been and are being
created new Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations, their degree of
organization and their struggle against the revisionist treachery is
growing, their connections with the masses are becoming stronger, they
are courageously raising the banner of revolution.

All this scares to death the revisionist cliques. That is why the
Soviet leadership, in order to extricate itself from this grave and
very difficult predicament, despite the previous defeats, pins great
hopes on an international meeting of the so-called communist and
workers’ parties.

It needs the meeting of an «international communist forum» to deceive
the Soviet people and the other peoples, to tell them that its
revisionist and treacherous course is a «real Marxist-Leninist lines
which has been approved also by a «great international communist
forums. With this certificate of good conducts it aims later to justify
the pressure at home exerted on those who oppose its anti-Marxist and
treacherous policy, who are struggling for the overthrow of the ruling
revisionist clique and the return of the Soviet Union on to the correct
road blazoned by Lenin and Stalin.

The renegade Soviet .leaders are seeking to prepare thereby the ground
and ensure the support of the international revisionist front for the
further traitorous steps they are taking and intend to take in the
future either in direction of capitalist restoration inside the country
or of the further extension of their collaboration with U.S.
imperialism, to undermine the liberation struggle of the Vietnamese
people and the other freedom-loving peoples, to integrate socialism
into capitalism, etc.

By approving «joint communiques, some «declarations or other document
of this kind at the end of their proposed meeting, they want to boast
and then to claim that solidarity, unity and mutual aid among the
revisionists remain «strong» not only on party but also on state level,
that their connections have made a «new strides towards further
strengthening.

From such a fallacious and deceptive enumeration of the aims of the
«Budapest meeting» the revisionist leaders seek to reach some still
greater targets, including the vast field of the struggle being waged
today in the world between the sound Marxist-Leninist forces and modem
revisionism, between revolution and counter-revolution.

They will try in Budapest to «legalize» the so-called orientation that
will be given there presenting it as a general orientation to the world
communist movement, sanctioned in an alleged «meeting of all the
communist and workers’ parties of the worlds. With such an allegedly
international «Marxist-Leninist» document, they not only believe to be
able to deceive the people and to conceal from them the out-and-out
treachery they are committing but, on the other side, they will get rid
also of the Moscow declarations of the years 1957 and 1960, which are
an obstacle on their anti-Marxist and counter-revolutionary road.

On the other hand, the international meeting is needed by the Soviet
revisionist leadership to stage «the international condemnation» of the
Marxist-Leninist parties, of the Communist Party of China and of the
Party of Labor of Albania in the first place, to «isolate» them, to
curb the process of growth and development of the Marxist-Leninist
revolutionary movement the world over. The assurances of some
revisionist leading groups that their meeting is not allegedly aimed at
condemning any party are a clumsy bluff. This is testified by the
frantic campaign of slanders conducted by the Soviet leadership and its
supporters against the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labor
of Albania, especially against the great Chinese proletarian cultural
revolution. But, whatever may happen, whether the Soviet leadership
will be able or not to ensure the necessary support of the other
revisionist groups for an open attack on the Communist Party of China,
on the Party of Labor of Albania and on the other Marxist-Leninist
parties, this will by no means change the essence of the question, for
it is principally irrelevant whether the revisionist meeting will
directly or indirectly attack the Marxist-Leninist parties, posing to
them, even without mentioning by name, the revisionist line as a line
allegedly of the entire world (communist movement. This has to do only
with the tactics that will be judged as most suitable to be pursued,
while the essence, the aim, remains the same: to isolate, to halt the
process of the development of the Marxist-Leninist movement, to
strangle and quell down their principled struggle against the
revisionist treachery.

The complete exposure of their out-and-out treachery to
Marxism-Leninism by the Party of Labor of Albania and the Chinese
Communist Party is gripping tighter and tighter the neck of the
revisionists. The Party of Labor of Albania and the Communist Party of
China are the principal enemies of the revisionists; it is they who,
through their principled and consistent struggle, have brought to the
fore and have ruthlessly exposed the revisionist treachery, have
frustrated and are frustrating their treacherous plans, have smashed
their demagogical and deceptive maneuvers. The struggle of the sound
Marxist-Leninist forces has made the revisionists lose their night and
day sleep. Therefore, in Budapest, too, as on every other occasion, the
Soviet leaders will attempt without fail to direct their poisonous
arrows against our parties, although, because of the internal
contradictions of the revisionist front and the fear of their further
exposure before the world public opinion, they may try to sugarcoat
them.

But the Soviet revisionist clique and its supporters are reckoning
without the host and giving themselves to illusions. However hard they
may try they will never be able to peddle their revisionist wares under
Marxist labels even if they bear the stamp of the «international
communist forum», or to isolate the Communist Party of China and the
Party of Labor of Albania and halt the irresistible process of the
growth and constant strengthening of the Marxist-Leninist movement in
the world. Life is showing more clearly with every passing day to the
peoples that the only real Marxist-Leninist line is the one upheld by
the Party of Labor of Albania, the Chinese Communist Party and by the
other Marxist-Leninist parties, it is the line of revolutionary
struggle for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of
the dictatorship of the proletariat, the line of the class struggle for
the elimination of the danger of revisionism and capitalist
restoration, aiming at carrying through to the end the construction of
socialist and communist society. It is the line of the firm,
tit-for-tat struggle against imperialism and modem revisionism, against
their heads — the U.S. imperialism and the Soviet revisionist
leadership, the line of unreserved support of the revolutionary and
liberation movements of the peoples. Their revolutionary line is
getting a tighter and tighter hold of the minds of the workers and
peoples of the whole world. The clearest testimony to this is borne by
the ever growing impetus of the revolutionary struggle of the working
people and the peoples on whole continents, a struggle which cannot be
strangled and quelled down either by the aggression and brutal
oppression of the imperialists or by the demagogy and deceptive
maneuvers of the revisionist renegades.

By their courageous stand in defence of Marxism-Leninism and their
exposure of the revisionist treachery, the Party of Labor of Albania
and the Communist Party, of China, have become torch-bearers of the
revolutionary struggle in the world, they are today the torch-bearers
and impregnable fortresses of socialism and communism. Around them are
militating today a considerable number of Marxist-Leninist parties
which are springing up everywhere, which are organizing themselves into
new parties and intensifying their resistance, their fight against the
bourgeoisie and for revolution, unmasking the modern revisionists
wherever they are and in every treacherous action of theirs. By
attacking our parties, the revisionists want precisely to quell down
this revolutionary struggle, to impose their opportunist line and
domination on the international communist movement. But whatever
propaganda and deceptive maneuvers the revisionists may resort to, the
Marxist-Leninist line of our parties is inspiring and will inspire
international communism on all the questions, is unmasking and will
unmask modem revisionism in all the fields.

The convocation of the Budapest meeting is connected also with the
grave situation existing on the revisionist front, with the mutual
relations between the various revisionist groupings.

Soviet hegemony on the revisionist front has been greatly shattered;
whatever efforts the traitorous leaders of the Soviet Union may make,
they will be unable to fill up the large leaks of their sinking boat.
Today it is no more a question of tendencies of disobedience of some
revisionist groups to particular political attitudes of the Soviet
leadership, of some more or less accentuated nationalist and
particularist manifestations, but of a fierce and all-round struggle
being waged by all the revisionists against one another in order to
force one’s own political solutions, narrow national interests to
snatch as much as possible from one another giving nothing in return.

The grave disputes and clashes which are corroding and wrecking the
revisionist front are being justified by the revisionist chief claiming
that different political stands and appraisals, contradictions and lack
of coordination, scrambling for supremacy and influence are allegedly
expressions of concrete economic and national conditions in which
various parties act, of their unequal political and ideological levels,
they are allegedly expressions of the freedom and independence each
party enjoys in formulating its own policy, of the equality and
democracy allegedly existing in the relations among them, etc.

But through similar sophisms they cannot dissipate the stink coming out
from the uninterrupted dissolution, degeneration and rottenness of the
revisionist system. The real causes of these ugly phenomena lie mainly
and wholly in the out-and-out treachery of the revisionist cliques to
Marxism-Leninism, to the camp of socialism and the world communist
movement; they are to be found in the treacherous line of capitalist
restoration in the Soviet Union and in the other countries where the
revisionists are in power; they lie in the opportunist trend of some
communist parties towards social-democratism and their transformation
into an appendage of the big monopoly bourgeoisie. The practice of
these recent years has shown that the deepening of the trends of
departure from Marxism-Leninism is directly proportional to the
increase of divergences, contradictions and misunderstandings between
the revisionist parties and states.

A proof of the decline and grave situation existing in the relations
among the revisionist parties and in the revisionist front as a whole
is provided by the very campaign for the convocation of the Budapest
meeting. This campaign is being frantically conducted in an atmosphere
of uncertainty and embarrassment. Its initiators are deeply stricken by
fear of failure, of difficulties and of numerous unknowns. In spite of
the decision and the summoning of 18 parties to the consultative
get-together in Budapest, not all the revisionists show themselves
eager to take part in it. Some of them hesitate to go to Budapest,
others are trying to find some way to avoid attending, others again
refuse to participate, and so on and so forth. It is self-understood
that the cause of these hesitations, waverings and refusals is not
related to some question of principle, as they are not less revisionist
than their like minded brethren. In the first place, they proceed from
their narrow national interests and want to preserve in this respect
the greatest possible freedom of action in the future; in the second
place, they do not like at all to become a mere tool of the political
games and maneuvers of the Soviet leaders, to become pawns of the
chauvinistic policy of Brezhnev and Kosygin. They are not so naive as
not to be able to understand that the meeting which the Soviet leaders
are after is a meeting aimed at subjugating and curbing others.

It is now clear that the Soviet leaders are striving for a general
meeting of the revisionist parties in order to consolidate their
revisionist positions, to dictate and force upon others their own
stands and opinions. Through this meeting, they want to achieve that if
possible, the complete sliding of the various revisionists on to the
fold of capitalism should not take place with such an irresistible
vigor as to become so discrediting and exposing. It is to their liking
that this sliding be directed exclusively by them, so that they can
speed it up or keep it down according to the needs and interests of
different political conjunctures. The Soviet leaders would have the
meeting organize a more orderly sliding down so as to create the sham
opinion that this is allegedly a «normal peaceful process» in
compliance with the «further development of Marxism-Leninism», a
process which is allegedly imposed by the «real analysis» of the actual
development of the forces in the world arena.

But if such are the aims and desires of the Soviet leaders, those of the other parties are different.

The question of the convocation of an international meeting of the
parties has a long history, full of defeats and disillusions for the
Soviet leading clique and constitutes a very clear mirror of the deep
and irreparable split in the revisionist front. The decision to hold
the so-called «consultative get-together» in Budapest has not
eliminated and cannot eliminate the difficulties in convoking the
international meeting of the parties, the more so as it is confirmed by
the sad experience of the ill-famed and bankrupt March 1, 1965 and the
Karlovy Vary April 1967 get-togethers. The revisionist partners of the
Soviet leadership continue to manifest doubts and hesitate about their
participating to such a meeting, the way of its preparation, the
questions to be discussed in it and the objectives it will achieve, for
they, by no means, want to submit to the chauvinistic dictate of the
Soviet leadership, they do not want to submit to any decision and
discipline whatsoever, even if they are based on the revisionist line.
In the revisionist camp, with its relations of bourgeois nationalism,
there can be no unity and solid and stable compactness; on the
contrary, the contradictions, disputes and centrifugal tendencies grow
deeper and deeper with every passing day.

Many of these revisionist groups do not like any more being dependent
on the caprices of the Soviet policy, on the complicated conjunctures
the Soviet leadership creates to serve its own interests. Suffice it to
mention the confusion created in and the divergences dividing the
revisionist countries concerning their attitude towards the German
Federal Republic, to understand the degree of gravity their
disobedience towards the Moscow baton has taken. Some have already
established diplomatic relations with the German Federal Republic,
others are still in the stage of trade and consular missions still,
others are merely waiting for the opportune moment. The revisionist
chiefs who are seeking to preserve Democratic Germany as an exchange
commodity in their large scale combinations with the Americans and the
western monopoly bourgeoisie, have exerted much pressure, but nobody
has lent an ear to them. Moreover, the approach to and the linking of
the revisionist countries of Europe with the German Federal Republic is
an attempt of theirs to weigh down the burden of Soviet hegemony, just
as their connections in general with the west assume, among other
things, the form of a pressure on the Soviet Union to unrivet the
Warsaw treaty and the Mutual Economic Aid Council.

The situation created by their attitude towards the Arab-Israeli
conflict is not any better. Many meetings have been held to coordinate
it, but, as it seems, not everybody is willing to support the old
Czarist policy of the present-day Soviet leaders in the Near and Middle
East.

We might mention here the divergences that have emerged on the
revisionist front concerning the monopoly policy pursued by the Soviet
Union in the Mutual Economic Aid Council, the contradictions concerning
the agreements on trade and payments, the general strategy of the
Warsaw Treaty and the relations among the armies and commands of the
member states, etc. But these would make up a chapter of its own. What
is important is that at the Budapest meeting, or at any other
revisionist meeting, the dark shadow of these misunderstandings will
always dominate, great theoretical formulations being of very little
value when such «minor» practical questions remain unsettled.

Another important factor encouraging and strengthening' the centrifugal
tendencies of the Khrushchovite revisionists is, no doubt, also the
consistent and ever greater pressure of the bourgeoisie and imperialism
which are obstinately striving for the earliest and most complete
detachment of the countries ruled by the revisionists from Soviet
influence. Not in vain does Johnson build up his «bridges» in Eastern
Europe, just as not in vain have the monopolies of West Germany,
Britain, France, Italy, etc., granted generous credits to or invested
their capitals directly in their economies. And it is obvious that one
of the principal «aids» that imperialism gives to the revisionist
countries is also the one aimed at turning them away from the Soviet
Union and attaching them to its own chariot. The maneuvers being now
carried out by Tito, this inveterate agent of U.S. imperialism, against
the Budapest meeting under the slogans of «independence»,
«non-submission», etc., are a mere continuation of his old policy to
detach the East European parties from the influence of the Soviet Union
and, jointly with him, to pass over definitely to the West. The
imperialist states are working hard to make the projected meeting of
the revisionist parties a success, but in the direction they are
interested in, ,that is, in weakening the Soviet hegemony over these
parties, in weakening the formal aid given to Vietnam. They are working
to ensure that this aid to Vietnam or to the national-liberation
struggles of the other peoples remain as it is today — an aid in words
and sabotage in deeds — and, moreover, to intensify the fight against
China and Albania, to further increase, if possible, the disagreements
of the other revisionists with the Soviets.

Finally, one should take into account also the fear which many
revisionist parties and groups are feeling of the aims of the Soviet
leaders to «excommunicate» China and Albania through a «general
meeting». They are fully aware that such a step would increase their
internal difficulties, it would more badly expose the treacherous and
anti-Marxist line, it would further increase the dissatisfaction of the
masses with such shameful actions, it would finally intensify the
struggle of the sound Marxist-Leninist forces and would draw still
nearer the time of the overthrow of the revisionists.

Typical of the waverings, hesitation and fear of the meeting which the
Soviet leaders are seeking to hold, are the attitudes of the Italian
revisionists. While the leader of the Italian revisionist Party, Luigi
Longo, was on the tribune of the «jubilee» meeting in Moscow, from
which renegade Brezhnev called for a «new world meeting of the
communists», the newspaper «Unita» of November 3 last published an
article by Longo. Referring to the difficulties in holding such a
meeting, he pointed out: «We must admit that the reason underlying many
reservations and doubts concerning the convocation of a world meeting
of the communist parties is the fear lest to a certain extent, due to
the very nature of its preparations, organization, development and
conclusions, it touches the limit of the independence of the individual
parties. It is also feared that finally their demands, the special
conditions of their work, may not be taken into account.» Luigi Longo
quite openly declared that «in the future it will not be indispensable
to establish common tactics and even a common and rigid strategy».

Indeed, now the different revisionist parties and groups, far from
wishing to be pawns in the hands of the Soviets, are seeking to use the
latter or others to further their own special interests and aims. The
pilgrimages of Gromyko, Podgorny and others to the Vatican were not
effected without Longo’s encouragement and that of his companions, just
as the approaches of the Soviet leaders with the dictatorial regimes of
South America are not effected without the insistence of the Latin
American revisionist parties which are seeking to justify, through
these actions, their approach and capitulation before the national
reactionary bourgeoisie, their renunciation of revolution and their
transformation into reformist, anti-labor and anti-socialist parties.

The campaign and the preparations of the Khrushchovite revisionists for
their meeting, that has now become «famous«-, show that they now find
themselves in an impasse, before another inevitable great defeat,
before a still greater split between them. A further weakening of their
positions lies ahead of them both in their foreign and home policies.

This situation will for certain result in increasing, strengthening and
organizing the resistance of the communists and people in the Soviet
Union as well as in the other revisionist countries and will make them
take up arms. Likewise, the revisionist parties in the capitalist
countries will get wormy and will be smashed, they will turn into open
tools of the bourgeoisie and real Marxist-Leninist parties will be
created and strengthened to continue their struggle at the head of the
working class, together with the revolutionary peasantry and patriotic
intelligentsia against the imperialists, the bourgeoisie, the
revisionists and reaction.

Such meetings as the one that the Khrushchovite revisionists are trying
to organize are of benefit to world revolution, to international
communism. They weaken and badly expose the traitorous revisionist
cliques, they isolate these cliques from the masses of the communists
and from their peoples, they contribute to the polarization of the
forces and to the disaggregation of the revisionist cliques.

The «Unity» proclaimed by the revisionists far from being a
Marxist-Leninist unity, far from being a unity of parties, is not even
a unity of cliques. It is a bluff, an attempt to throw dust on the eyes
and deceive whomever they can deceive. But now it is difficult for them
to find many people to deceive, life will soon eliminate also this
smokescreen of words and hackneyed demagogy.

It is an, important internationalist duty for all the genuine
revolutionaries and communists ruthlessly to hit and unmask the new
treacherous plans the Soviet revisionist leadership is hatching up
about the alleged meeting of the communist parties. The Soviet people
and the Soviet Marxist-Leninists in the first place, must no longer
tolerate the demagogic propaganda and the deceptive claims of the
Brezhnev and Kosygin usurping clique which feigns to strive for the
strengthening of socialism and of the world communist movement and
alleges that its line meets with the approval and support of the
communist parties of the world. They must rise up and revolt with
courage against the revisionist demagogy and activity which is aimed at
concealing its treachery towards Marxism-Leninism, praising its
reactionary alliance with U.S. imperialism and encouraging the
counter-revolutionary battle against the Party of Labor of Albania and
the Communist Party of China. This is required by the interests of
revolution and socialism, this is required by the vital interests of
the Soviet people who have been deprived of the glorious October
victories by the revisionist clique which is seeking to turn them back
to capitalist slavery. We are convinced that the communists and the
peoples of the countries where the revisionists are in power will
incessantly intensify the revolutionary struggle and will raise the
banner of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism from the
mud into which the revisionists have thrown it.